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trish251
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Does anyone know of any fiction stories related to tin mining/miners in Cornwall - 1850-1900. In terms of understanding the lifestyle of the times, sometimes fiction stories will paint a more useful/interesting story than non-fiction.
I would also appreciate any non-fiction references in relation to the lives of Cornwall tin miners in the 19th century
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Trish
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althea
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Here are some books here and index of names mentioned
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwi/conbook1.txt
several specific to mining
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Pascoe, Williams, Rowe, Matthews, Eddy: St Just-in-Penwith, St Keverne, Cornwall. Varcoe, Collicoat, Chapman: Roche area,Cornwall Cornes & Graham: Ireland/Shropshire, Barker, Palin: Shropshire McDougall, Morren: Ireland, Earl, Redgen, Steward: Suffolk OPC for Breage, Germoe & Godolphin Cornwall : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~althea/index.html Thames, New Zealand Genealogy Resources: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~althea/index.html |
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trish251
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Many thanks Althea
Trish
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althea
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Hi Trish
Forgot to add this list at West penwith resources
http://west-penwith.org.uk/wpenbook.htm lots have memoirs which should help with the real day account of what things were like.
Are you interested in a particular area of Cornwall?
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Pascoe, Williams, Rowe, Matthews, Eddy: St Just-in-Penwith, St Keverne, Cornwall. Varcoe, Collicoat, Chapman: Roche area,Cornwall Cornes & Graham: Ireland/Shropshire, Barker, Palin: Shropshire McDougall, Morren: Ireland, Earl, Redgen, Steward: Suffolk OPC for Breage, Germoe & Godolphin Cornwall : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~althea/index.html Thames, New Zealand Genealogy Resources: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~althea/index.html |
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trish251
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Hi Althea
My ggrandfather was a tin Miner from Wendron before he immigrated c. 1885 - I am trying to write a story that shows the life they had in Cornwall. I had always thought they had a hard life in Australia but I am told it was probably much better than what was left behind. I have read a couple of fiction books on life in Dorset in 1700s/1800s and am probably being lazy wanting to read someone's fiction about Cornwall - most fiction writers usually research the lifestyles of the times they are writing about. Some include good reference material in their notes. Looking at some of the references you have given will no doubt give me some of the information I would like to see.
The West Penwith site is very interesting - this is one of my family names - I do laugh at the comment and understand what is meant
Bolitho, T.G.G. The origin of the name Bolitho; The author, Paris: 1928 Complete rubbish.
Many thanks again
Trish
Edit: mmm something on that site gave me a spectacular computer crash - I will go a little slowly
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terrymo
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A good fiction writer of well researched tin mining stories is EV Thompson. A couple of titles spring to mind: Chase the Wind and Ben Retallick.
Mo
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Preece, Waterfield,Harding, Welman, Dewar, Rossiter, Hill, Cummings,Tregonning, Harman, Martinelli This information is Crown Copyright, from " http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk" |
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Mistyweather
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi
A good fiction writer of well researched tin mining stories is EV Thompson. A couple of titles spring to mind: Chase the Wind and Ben Retallick.
Mo
I have to agree with this. Have been reading his stuff for approx 20 years now. My daughter has collected most of them and they are nearly all signed. We have "chased" him half way round Cornwall and Devon when we knew there was to be a signing. When my daughter was a teenager, someone stole one of her books and she wrote to him with only a vague address and he returned the letter and sent her a couple of books.
Now I think of it, he wrote one about someone emigrating to Aus if I have got the right author
His first ones were the best IMO
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Pearce, Richards, Moyle, Rodda, Cornwall
Ayres, White Davies, Somerset, Bristol, Glos
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trish251
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Mo & Misty - many thanks for this - I will follow it up pronto
Trish
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trish251
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Thanks Kim - very interesting - my ggrandmother is there - they seem to have used census information to track her - probably some of her sisters/sister-in-laws as well
Trish
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